Car free day 8

I have yet to drive my car around to get it exercise, I will probably get around to that tomorrow. Today I took transit in, because there was a good chance of rain, and it was supposed to be (and was) quite chilly, with a high only around 50F. The ride in was foggy, but mostly uneventful.

However, once I got into work, and opened my e-mail, I was presented with an interesting twist to the day. In my inbox was a request to interview a candidate for a position in our China development center, the interview beginning at 8PM, and running until 9PM or so. I rarely go the full length, but it is very likely that, including writing my evaluation of the candidate, I will run up against that 9PM barrier.

The actual end-time is unimportant. The important thing is that I needed to be in the office from 8-9PM, because there is no way I was going to put an hour-long international call on my personal cell phone. This means that I needed to go out and get dinner from the office, and return in time for the call, ruling out going home for food. Since there is no food nearby, I decided to walk over to Orenco Station, and buy some pre-made food from New Seasons. This means that I had to walk about 2.25 miles roundtrip to get myself dinner.

I then gave the interview, and realized that the buses do not run this late, meaning that I would have to walk the ~1 mile down to the station to catch the train, which luckily DOES run this late. While this, in and of itself, is not cause for complaining (a ceiling of 3.5 miles walking in one day, while much more than I usually do, is not all that much in the grand scheme of things), but I foolishly shaved (as in razor shaved) my head this past weekend, and didn't bring a hat today. This means that I got to walk this ~3.5 miles in <45F weather with a shaved head. Oh yeah, and it rained on my for about half of the walk. At least the train came shortly after I got to the station.